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Prioritized their guns over the lives of others! >> david, after all of that, there senator marco rubio tweeted a falsehood about what they said on saturday. he said that they wanted to ban guns, just ban all guns was what he characterized this as. so their own senator couldnt reply to them in a truthful way. >> i think to my mind what is going on at this march is the waking up of the famous reformist conscience of america. not just as a legislative matter but as a social matter. maybe its the d...

Waking up of the famous reformist conscience of america. not just as a legislative matter but as a social matter. maybe its the difference in the temperance movement and prohibition, that the way you get americans to live safer lives is not by banning alcohol, its by persuading them all to drink more sensibly. in the same way this movement could reach into a lot of hearts to say the gun problem may not be legislation, it may be just each family personally deciding you want to take care of the ki...

Let the people who want to stand in the way of sensible gun safety legislation stand up and be accountable. these young people are demanding action. theyre right. we have a responsibility to do everything we can to reduce gun violence in this country. and there are a lot of good ideas to do it. im so proud of these young people. we heard from so many here in rhode island who are making a real difference here in this debate. and i know theyre not going to let up until we do our jobs and enact com...

Today, i checked again, two more people have been shot and one more has been killed. so that 88 turned into 89. im trying to make sure there is -- the number doesnt go up any more. >> in your opinion, is that a gun problem? is that a society problem about ways in which we deal with things that dont involve guns? >> i feel that it is a balance between one another. the gun violence is actually a key thing right now inside of the killings and shootings because my brother, he was shot just because o...

Principal staff could carry a weapon under this program. i find that to be extremely problematic. i dont think the solution to our gun problem is to put more guns in schools. i think it raises more problems than what it solves. >> melissa, who teaches journalism at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida, will you keep in touch? id love to keep the conversation going with you guys. >> im sorry, i didnt hear what you said. >> i said, will you stay in touch? im looking forward to...

What is your reaction to it? what do you think? >> i think it has some things in it that are definitely an improvement. its the first major gun legislation in our state in over 20 years. so i think that that, in itself, is remarkable. i think it has sod good morning things in it, raise the age to 21, banning bump stocks, increase funding for mental health, but it falls short of what the kids wanted. it definitely isnt a ban on assault rifles, which they wouldnt take up debate in the legislature....

Shootings, my heart goes out and i met with those students at parkland and i love them and support all of them. >> we support them. >> we support them and mass shootings are a heinous crisis. just one point, we have more shootings than three or four times 9/11 per year. we know this is tragic including that mass shooting. to the president if hes going to be serious, he has to look at wholistically at gun violence thats perpetrated by gangs or individuals who dont have the resource to steer their...

That a terrible shouldnt be able to buy an assault rifle. >> nra are great people. my father said that the other day. we know so many of them. they believe in freedom and great country. im a member of the nra. but at the end of the day, we cannot have schools get shot up. there are things that have to be done. at the same time, this isnt just a gun problem. its really not a gun problem. its a mental health problem in this country. right? its a societal problem. the fact that there is a kid willi...

Guns because they are afraid. >> you notice in all these, you know the school shootings, where is the surgeon general in the last ten years? you know, coming out and saying what can we do? what can we do? how can we reduce the problem? again, the gun problem in the united states in terms of public health is not just about school shootings, its every day in the united states, over 300 people are shot and about over 100 die. day after day after day on average. >> excellent point. unfortunately, th...

Drunk and you have problems that can occur. >> while you were at the harvard school of public health, youve been researching this for decades, i dont know if you saw it yet but could you have seen eric trump who has no degree, no expertise on public health or gun safety, he was on fox news this morning saying its not a gun problem, ate mental health and societal problem. again, i am unaware if he is, i would be happy to report it or invite eric trump to join us, im unaware eric trump has any spo...